CAF (an experience scan tool)

Consider All Factors (or CAF) is another attention directing thinking tool. CAF is used to scan our experience when confronting a new situation similar to a past one.

Our usual attitude of considering possible factors is not helpful. We may leave out important factors or even forget completely. ‘Doing a CAF’ forces us to do concrete effort to look back to our experiences.

While doing a CAF we keep thinking what we may have forgotten. This ensures we consider as many factors as possible. As with other thinking tools we allow 2-5 minutes to do this scan.

Another important aspect of doing CAF is that we are not trying to judge or evaluate at this stage. We are just in the scan mode. The evaluation aspect comes later with another tool C&S. (consequences and sequels.)